{"id":433772,"date":"2026-01-26T06:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433772\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:14:07","slug":"seattle-seahawks-knock-off-los-angeles-rams-in-thriller-to-book-spot-in-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433772\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks knock off Los Angeles Rams in thriller to book spot in Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Sam Darnold<\/a> threw for three touchdowns, the Seahawks\u2019 \u201cDark Side\u201d defense came up with a critical fourth-down stop, and Seattle advanced to the Super Bowl, beating the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> 31-27 in an electrifying NFC championship game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Led by second-year coach Mike Macdonald and Darnold \u2014 an eight-year veteran playing for his fifth team \u2014 the Seahawks (16-3) reached the fourth Super Bowl in franchise history and first in 11 years. Seattle lost that most recent appearance to New England, its opponent in two weeks at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.<\/p>\n

With Los Angeles (14-6) facing fourth-and-4 at the Seattle 6, coach Sean McVay elected to go for it and Matthew Stafford<\/a>\u2019s pass was broken up in the end zone by Devon Witherspoon<\/a>. The Rams didn\u2019t get the ball back until there were 25 seconds left, and Puka Nacua<\/a> was tackled inbounds near midfield on the final play.<\/p>\n

Stafford threw for 374 yards and three touchdowns, but the Rams were undone by critical errors, including a muffed punt by Xavier Smith<\/a> in the third quarter. On the next play, Darnold connected with Jake Bobo<\/a> for a 17-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n

Darnold, who flopped in his playoff debut last season with the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, played through an oblique injury and completed 25 of 36 passes for 346 yards with no turnovers. Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a> had 153 yards receiving and a touchdown on 10 catches.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/p>\n

Andrew Destin, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Sam Darnold threw for three touchdowns, the Seahawks\u2019 \u201cDark Side\u201d defense came up with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,153378,75841,82],"class_list":["post-433772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-rams-sports-football-team-team-statscom-343","tag-seattle-seahawks-sports-football-team-team-statscom-361","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}